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...that charge: Arab speakers in the U.N. debate ticked off a number of examples of discrimination against Arabs in the occupied territories, including restrictions on travel and harassment by police. Most galling to the Arabs is Israel's Law of Return, which grants instant citizenship to any Jew who immigrates to Israel from anywhere in the world, while Palestinian Arabs who fled their homeland during the 1948 war are still, in most cases, prevented from returning. In answer, Israelis point out that the 470,000 Palestinians who live within Israel's pre-1967 borders are not subject...
...hero of Paradise Lost), though it has gained great impetus from the horrors of anti-semitism in the twentieth century. The basic font and origin of the trouble with The Merchant of Venice is something nearly unique in Shakespeare--an unresolved tension between an Elizabethan stage convention (the evil Jew) and Shakespeare's own meaning...
This goes part of the way to solving the Shylock problem, though nothing can gloss over the fact that Shakespeare has given Shylock the motivations, actions and retribution that properly belong the stock stage Jew, but has written speeches that (at least to the modern ear) make him something better. And the production seriously stumbles at a critical point in the interpretation of Shylock's position in the play's scheme of redemption. When Portia confounds Shylock by allowing him his pound of flesh but condemning him to death if an iota of blood be spilled in its excision...
...doctorate degrees in literature at Columbia. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1931 as an instructor of English. Two years earlier he had married Diana Rubin, also a distinguished critic, and they had one son James. As he worked toward a full professorship (in 1948 he became the first Jew to receive tenure in the English department) Trilling slowly gained the reputation of someone more than a courtly scholar. His doctoral dissertation on Matthew Arnold was published in 1939-in the heyday of the textual analyses by the New Criticism-and it restated the Arnoldian creed that "a work...
...take on the bad parts, the hustling, the rackets, the big cars and fine clothes." This emphasis pervades even the moments of comic relief provided by a lanky, effiminate short-order chef who wants to be a classical dancer--he takes lessons from a white Jew...